Improvement in reservoir cooking-stoves



D. H. NATION & E. C. LITTLE.

Reservoir Cooking-Stoves.

NO. 142,931, I Patented Se ptember16,1873.

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Witness: J! 044/ W WM M rrnn STATES PATENT :OFFIGE.

DAVID H. NATION AND EZEKIEL O. LITTLE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN RESERVOIR COOKlNG-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,931, datedSeptember 16, 1873 application filed February 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID E. NATION and EZEKIEL O. LITTLE, of St.Louis, in the county of St. Louis and in the State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in ReservoirCooking-Stoves; and do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon,making a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to that class of cookin g-stoves in which thewater-reservoir is located at the back of the stove; and it consists inthe construction and arrangement of the back plate of a stove with thebroad base-pan flue, to receive the reservoir, and a two-winged damperlocated at the mouth of the flue, and the exit flue passing up in rearof the reservoir.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to make and use the same, we will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in whichFigure l is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal verticalsection, of a cookingstove embodying our invention. Fig. 3 is a rearview of the back plate of the stove. Fig. 4 is plan view of thebase-pan, and Fig. 5 is a view of the damper.

A represents an ordinary three-flue cookingstove, provided with anordinary wash-boiler or reservoir, B, which rests upon the base-pan O,with the exit-flue D passing up behind the boiler. The top of thebase-pan O is provided with two ordinary boilerholes, a a, and astove-center, b, as shown in Fig. 4, so that the said base-pan or backprojection can be used for ordinary cooking when the boiler or reservoiris removed. In this form of stove the damper G is placed on the bottomof the base pan at its junction with the stove-back E, and is made withtwo wings, as shown in Fig. 5. The opening in the stove -back E in thiscase will extend the whole width of the base-pan. The direct draft willpass down the side flues e e, and through the opening in the back plateE, into the base-pan when the damper is down or open, but when thedamper is closed or turned toward the back plate the indirect draft willpass down the side flues e e, and under the bottom of the oven,returning through the center flue d, up and through the opening in theback plate at the center between the flue-plates.

We do not claim under this patent the arrangement of an air-chamber,communicating at the top with the air in the room, between thestove-back and reservoir-front; nor do we claim the sheet-flue under thereservoir-bottom, as herein shown, as these features are the subjectmatter of a separate application for Letters Patent applied for by us.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the base-pan 0, extended rearward from a point aboutequidistant between the top and bottom plates of the stove, thereservoir B being free from contact with the stove excepting its bottom,the two-winged damper G, and the exit-pipe D, situated in the rear ofthe reservoir, all substantially as and for the purposes herein setforth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our handsthis 1st day of February, 1873.

DAVID H. NATION. EZEKIEL (J. LITTLE.

Witnesses: BENJAMIN S. BUCK, ARTHUR L. PIERCE.

